M&A Deal Summary

Lumen Acquires CSW Net

On August 3, 2000, Lumen acquired internet software and services company CSW Net

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Lumen’s 1st transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Lumen’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Lumen’s 1st transaction in Arkansas.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2000-08-03
Target CSW Net
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) Lumen
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

CSW Net

Russellville, Arkansas, United States
CSW Net, Inc. provides Internet services to more than 13,500 subscribers in Arkansas.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Lumen

Monroe, Louisiana, United States

Category Company
Founded 1968
Sector Communications
Employees27,000
Revenue 14.6B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
CenturyLink office location in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.
CenturyLink office location in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota.

Lumen is an integrated communications company engaged in providing an array of communications services to residential, business, governmental and wholesale customers. CenturyLink's communications services include local and long-distance, network access, private line (including special access), public access, broadband, data, managed hosting (including cloud hosting), colocation, wireless and video services. In certain local and regional markets, the Company also provides local access and fiber transport services to competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) and security monitoring. Lumen was established in 1968 and is based in Monroe, Louisiana.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 17
Sector (Internet Software and Services) 1 of 3
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 15
State (Arkansas) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 3 of 16
Year (2000) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1997-01-01 Delta Security Alarm

Monroe, Louisiana, United States

Delta Security Alarm Co., Inc., provides full-service security systems to a customer base of nearly 4,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in north central Louisiana, southern Arkansas and northwestern Mississippi.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-06-09 Digital Teleport

Chesterfield, Missouri, United States

Digital Teleport, Inc. provides wholesale bandwidth transport services to telecommunications carriers and service providers in the United States. It also provides Ethernet services to enterprise customers and government agencies in metropolitan network rings.

Buy $38M